| |   43 injured after Japan earthquake
| AT least 43 people were taken to hospital for injuries after a powerful earthquake struck northern Japan early today, officials said. | The injuries were reported in and around the city of Hachinohe in Aomori...
Flower exports may fall 20% this year
| NEW DELHI: The Rs 300-crore flower export market is likely to shrink 15-20% this year owing to global recession. With fertiliser costs also doublin...
US shift to smaller cars raises safety questions
| | WASHINGTON: An accelerating US consumer shift from sport utility vehicles and pickups to more fuel-efficient cars should reduce rollover, ...
Erring SIA staff 'won't work' on pensions / No jobs for censured officials at new body
| The government and the Liberal Democratic Party agreed Wednesday that the government will not rehire any of the 867 Social Insurance Agency officials reprimanded for mishandling pension records and other misc...
Man 'bought knife shortly before attack'
| A man alleged to have stabbed to death a 22-year-old woman in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Tuesday night told investigators he had bought a kitchen knife used in the attack shortly before the incident, police ...
Teacher exam reviews eyed by 37 boards
| Fifty-eight prefectural and municipal governments said they allowed only board of education officials to take part in screenings for public schoolteachers, but 37 of them expressed hope they could improve thi...
Assembly OK's Hashimoto budget plan
| OSAKA--The Osaka Prefectural Assembly on Wednesday approved the budget draft for fiscal 2008 drawn up by Gov. Toru Hashimoto. | The draft is a revised version that scaled back cuts in personnel costs and priv...
Osaka to sell Ogimachi Kids Park
| The Osaka municipal government will sell its Ogimachi Kids Park in Kita Ward, Osaka, to Kansai Telecasting Corp., which is headquartered in the complex, for about 21 billion yen, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learn...
2 trading firm execs held over padded expenses
| OSAKA--Two executives of a trading firm in Kita Ward, Osaka, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of concealing 160 million yen in income and evading about 47 million yen in corporate tax by padding expenses ...
Man may be linked to ROK revenue stamp forgeries
| OSAKA--A 60-year-old man indicted on suspicion of selling forged revenue stamps has told police he purchased 50,000 of the stamps from a South Korean acquaintance, it was learned Wednesday. | The Osaka prefec...
Boy arrested over 15-year-old's beating death
| MAEBASHI--A 15-year-old boy of Maebashi was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of fatally beating a high school student who was found collapsed Tuesday in front of a train station in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, pol...
Kin, friends aghast at woman's death / Random murder of student 'with bright future' outrages teachers, acquaintances
| Another innocent individual was randomly robbed of life Tuesday in Hachioji, Tokyo, a mere 1-1/2 months after an indiscriminate violent rampage claimed the lives of seven people in the Akihabara district. | M...
IN THE NEWS / Veteran actress takes new role as fund-raiser
| At the age of 74, actress Meiko Nakamura had business cards printed for the first time in her life after being named chairwoman of Ayumi no Hako, a fund-raising group for disabled people. Nakamura now hands o...
Patronage on Diet agenda / Ruling parties eye issue of political appointments for next session
| The ruling coalition parties and chairmen of steering committees of both houses of the Diet are showing a willingness to try to reform the system of Diet confirmation of political patronage appointments, a re...
Shizuoka high school eels prove a best seller
| SHIZUOKA--Eel farmed by Shizuoka Prefectural Yaizu Fisheries High School students are on sale at a major department store in Shizuoka for Thursday's Doyo no Ushi (the Day of the Ox), the day on which eel are ...
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